Qualitative Thought, Thinking Through the Body, and Embodied Thinking: Dewey and His Successors

Stankiewicz, Sebastian

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“…Ideas of self are deeply implicated in discussions of embodiment that have emerged across diverse disciplines (Abram, 1996;Bresler, 2004;Davidson, 2004b;Gershon, Bresler, Erkert, Graham, & Gottlieb, 2011;Lakoff & Johnson, 1999;Stankiewicz, 2011). In these conversations, the mind, which had been deftly severed from the body during the enlightenment, is returned to its theoretical and visceral connections with the body and the environment.…”

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The Journal Project

Davidson

2011

Qualitative Inquiry

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The Journal Project is a qualitative research study of self at the crossroads-a female, middle-aged academic, posttenure, postmenopausal-at sea in her profession and not entirely able to inhabit her own skin. My solution to this dilemma was to study an 18-month period of my personal journals written from June 2006 to March 2008, the period after I received tenure from my university. I used standard qualitative research methods of document analysis to study the 303 entries. The materials were organized and analyzed within NVivo, a qualitative data analysis software. Throughout the process of standard social science analysis, I was also employing arts-based approaches (fiber arts in particular) to deepen and extend my understanding of the findings. The outcome of this work was an exhibit of the fiber works at a qualitative research conference in which I was able to blend the findings derived from a social science analysis within an arts-based presentation. In this piece, I describe the genesis of the Journal Project and document my love affair with fiber arts. The heart of the piece is a description of the exhibit, with attention to the ways that the making of art AND the description of that making extend the possibilities of interpretation for qualitative researchers. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of this experiment with arts-based research for my own practice as a qualitative researcher and, by extension, for others.

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confidence: 99%